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coatings industry trends 2026 | MECS 2026 | Bostech polymer
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Coatings Industry Trends for 2026 & Onwards: What to Expect at MECS Dubai

The coatings industry is entering a period where formulation performance, sustainability, supply-chain reliability, and regional responsiveness are becoming equally important. Across the GCC and wider Middle East, paint and coatings manufacturers are looking beyond individual raw materials and asking a broader question: Can their formulation deliver consistent performance under demanding regional conditions while remaining commercially viable?

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UAE Construction Chemicals Outlook 2026–2031 | Ebrahim Zulfiqar Managing Director – Bostech Polymer

We closed the first half of this year having sold every container of epoxy resin we brought into the country. Not most of them, all of them. A few years ago, the hardest part of running a chemicals business in this region was finding the customer. Today, the harder part is having material on hand the day the customer calls. That single shift is the clearest way I can sum up our UAE construction chemicals market outlook heading toward 2031: demand has stopped being the constraint. Availability has become the product.